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What's new?

In version 0.1.3.1:

Connection issue with ICQ fixed: the protocol plugin has been upgraded.

Better stability: a few crashes fixed.

New features:

Proxy support: you can now use HTTP or Socks proxies.

Typing notifications: you can see when the person you are talking to is typing.

Automatic Reconnection: when a non fatal connection error occurs (e.g. network failure), the account is automatically reconnected after a few seconds.

Idleness: servers are notified when you are idle so that your status can be changed.

Better handling of chat rooms: the topic of the room is displayed, the list of participants is displayed, IRC commands work.

Findbar: It is now easy to search in a conversation, with a findbar similar to the Firefox one. A notable difference is that it searches backwards by default, so that the most recent matching messages are found first.

Universal build: The mac binary now also works on PPC Macs.

Updated: Instantbird 0.1.3 is now based on libpurple 2.5.2 and Mozilla 1.9.1b2.

Improved stability: we used the crash reports that we got from the 0.1.2 release and nightly builds to fix bugs that resulted in crashes.